Special Education Information System (SEIS) provides centralized online management and storage of Individual Education Plans (IEPs) and special education student records.
Teachers and service providers can edit IEP forms at any time online. The IEP forms are pre-populated with information from the SEIS Student Record, which eliminates repetitive data entry.
CALPADS stands for California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System and is a database that stores and utilizes student level information at the state level. As data requirements have increased in amount and complexity, web-based IEP systems, such as SEIS, have been developed to manage the IEP process, as well as collect the data required by the State of California. Student record information in SEIS is automatically uploaded to CALPADS on a nightly basis. California requires that special education student record information reporting occur twice a year, once in October and again in June. This data is submitted through CALPADS.
All IEP information is collected and stored in SEIS and CALPADS. From the time a student record is created in SEIS, all of the historical information will move with the student, even when they transfer to another LEA within California.
SEIS User Roles & Responsibilities details the appropriate assignment of SEIS responsibilities and corresponding user types within the SEIS system.